Hear Nashville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274590057
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154786149
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ear and Throat Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,860
- Expenses
- $120,946
- Assets
- $214,784
- Liabilities
- $734
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- BETH HARMON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- JUDSON SCOTT (TREASURER)
- LOU ULRICH (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hearing AIDS for the poor
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing hearing AIDS for those that connot afford them
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 64.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.